I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.

There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!

Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't super achievers is taking advantage of those breaks.

I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius but it really was a lucky break.

Probably any successful career has "X" number of breaks in it and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't superachievers is taking advantage of those breaks.

But most days, I wander around feeling invisible.Like I'm a speck of dustfloating in the airthat can only be seenwhen a shaft of light hits it.

But remember, there's no greater gift than the present.

Just wear what makes you happy. If you're happy, it's a great outfit.

I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air.

I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.